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AWSCloudTrail - Network ACL with all the open ports to a specified CIDR

Description

Detects Network ACL entries that allow very broad inbound access ranges, including all protocols or large port ranges. Such changes can significantly increase exposure and may indicate weakening of cloud network controls.

Rule type: Scheduled
Version: 1.0.3
Declared status: Available
Query frequency: 1d
Query period: 1d
Trigger: gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

DefenseEvasion T1562.007

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

AWS

Data types

AWSCloudTrail

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

AWSCloudTrail
| where EventName in ('CreateNetworkAclEntry', 'ReplaceNetworkAclEntry') and isempty(ErrorMessage) and isempty(ErrorCode)
| extend ruleAction = tostring(parse_json(RequestParameters)['ruleAction']),
         egress=parse_json(RequestParameters)['egress'],
         total_ports=(toint(parse_json(parse_json(RequestParameters)['portRange'])['to']) - toint(parse_json(parse_json(RequestParameters)['portRange'])['from'])),
         aclProtocol=parse_json(RequestParameters)['aclProtocol']
| where isnotempty(total_ports)
| where ruleAction == 'allow' and egress == false and (aclProtocol == '-1' or (total_ports > 1024))
| extend UserIdentityArn = iif(isempty(UserIdentityArn), tostring(parse_json(Resources)[0].ARN), UserIdentityArn)
| extend UserName = tostring(split(UserIdentityArn, '/')[-1])
| extend AccountName = case( UserIdentityPrincipalid == "Anonymous", "Anonymous", isempty(UserIdentityUserName), UserName, UserIdentityUserName)
| extend AccountName = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 0)[0]), AccountName),
  AccountUPNSuffix = iif(AccountName contains "@", tostring(split(AccountName, '@', 1)[0]), "")

Declared entities

AccountIP

Source provenance

GitHub

Displayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.

File: Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Analytic Rules/AWS_NetworkACLOpenToAllPorts.yaml ↗
Commit: 9800e51 ↗
Source identifier: f8ea7d50-e33b-4b9d-9c3e-a59fcbcee281

Additional source files 2

Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Analytic Rules/AWS_NetworkACLOpenToAllPorts.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Amazon Web Services/Data/Solution_AmazonWebServices.jsonsolution-membership ↗

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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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